Aristotle on the Nature of Analogy (eBook)

Eric Schumacher (Autor)

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2018
140 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9871-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book reconsiders the Aristotelian analogy. Focusing primarily on Aristotle’s Physics Alpha, a structure of analogy emerges within Aristotle’s discussion of the principles of “becoming.” Eric Schumacher argues that logos, the first of these principles, is rooted in analogy and entails a type of mobility fit to reflect the be-coming of nature.

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Focusing primarily on Aristotle's Physics Alpha, an attempt is made to establish the structure and significance of the Aristotelian analogy. Traditionally, the concept of analogy in Aristotle has been treated along two lines of interpretation. In this book, these are referred to as the mathematical interpretation and the correlative interpretation. The mathematical approach claims that the Aristotelian analogy only accounts for proportional comparisons between usually four things. On the other hand, the correlative interpretation describes the Aristotelian analogy as something that unites the multiple uses of a single term (the many uses of ';healthy,' for example). This book will argue that both of these interpretations overlook the nature of the Aristotelian analogy. The structure of analogy can be taken from Aristotle's discussion of the three principles of natural ';becoming' in his Physics Alpha. In Physics Alpha, Aristotle claims that these three principles are: 1) the being in its addressable form (logos); 2) the course of becoming of that addressable being (steresis); 3) the substance that remains the same throughout the change (hypokeimenon). Although the first principle, logos, accounts for addressability, the other two do not. The second and third principles are inseparable from logos but always remain hidden from addressability (ana-logos). This book will argue that these principles reveal a structure of analogy that discloses an inherent mobility of logos which enables it to reflect the intuitive and ever-changing principles of becoming. As such, the relationship between Logos and intuition (nous) can be reimagined.

Autor

Eric Schumacher is associate professor of philosophy at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.

Inhalt

IntroductionCourse of this StudyGenesis and AnalogyComparability and Underlying NatureChapter One: Locating the Structure of Analogy in Aristotle’s ThoughtTwo Determinant Points of Reference for the Study of Analogy in Aristotle’s Thought: Gamma 2 and Lambda 4Aristotle’s “Common Nature” as the Ground of Analogy in Aquinas Aquinas on Analogical NamesAquinas on the Analogy of BeingConcluding Comments on Aquinas on AnalogyAristotle’s “Common Nature” as the Ground of the Abuse of AnalogyOwen on Focal MeaningAubenque on the “Origin of the Doctrine of the Analogy of Being”What Heidegger Adds to the Locating of Analogy in AristotleProblems with the Two Interpretations of Analogy in AristotleChapter Two: Speaking By NatureAristotle’s Way as an Analogical Movement of DiscoveryPhysics Alpha, 1Three Conditions Nous for the Structure of AnalogyThe Co-operation of Nous and AisthēsisNous and its Expression through LogosNous and the Apprehending of First PrinciplesA Few More Words on Nous and the Return to the Analogical Movement of Discovery Physics Alpha, 2Concluding Remarks on the Analogical Movement of DiscoveryChapter Three: On the Primary Role of SterēsisUnification and Uniqueness as the Guiding Significance of Sterēsis Reading the Definitions of Sterēsis from Metaphysics Delta, 22A Few More Words Regarding the Articulation of SterēsisPhysics Alpha, 3, 4 and 5Concluding Remarks on Qualified Non-BeingChapter Four: On the Analogical Preservation of the Ambiguity of BeingPhysics Alpha, 6 Logos as Radical AnalogyConcluding Remarks on Logos as Radical AnalogyBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Aisthesis • Ancient Philosophy • classics • Continental Philosophy • Deconstruction • Heidegger • History of Philosophy • Logos • Metaphysics • Metaphysics Delta • nous • Philosophy of Language • philosophy of mathematics • Philosophy of Religion • Physics Alpha • radical analogy • stereisis • structure of analogy
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9871-8 / 0739198718
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9871-1 / 9780739198711